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Yon may not need to capture screenshots of your Android Wear smartwatch often, but it is a technique that has proved to be very popular on phones and tablets. They can be used when you have a technical problem and need to share evidence with a support team, or even to show off your preferred interface with others. In fact, once you learn how to do it, you may find that you start taking them a lot more often than you anticipated.

Developer Options have to be enabled and while this may feel like it is opening the device up to areas that you would not normally require, if you just use them for screenshots alone you will not be affecting the security of your watch or causing any stability problems. Your phone will use the Android Wear app in order to capture the current Android Wear screen and will initiate a new email that can be sent immediately, so that you can share the image or edit it as required. This method highlights how much of the work your phone or tablet does when it comes to Android Wear watches, but it also shows how well the two can work together wirelessly to help you get things done. This is a simple process that can be understood in a matter of minutes.

Enable Developer options on your Android Wear device to be able to take screenshots. You can do this by tapping the Build number in Settings>About multiple times.

When you open the Android Wear app on your phone and tap the menu icon, you will see a ‘Take wearable screenshot' option within the list. This is all you need to proceed.

Tap the option quoted in Step 2 and after a few seconds a new notification will appear at the top of the screen. Pull the bar down to see ‘Wearable screenshot finished’ listed.

When you tap the notification you will then be taken to the Gmail app, which shows an email ready to send with the screenshot file included. Enter an email address and tap Send.

You can now save the screenshot from the received email which will show exactly what was on the Android Wear screen at the time you took it. They will be quite low resolution.

Even if your Android Wear device is round, the resultant screenshot will be square because this is the natural environment for the software. Some edges may sometimes be cutoff.